Refyner is a workflow building and scheduling tool for one-person data teams on Snowflake. Describe what you need, review what it builds, and let it run on your schedule. From $99 a month.
Pull in a Snowflake table, shape it with drag-in components, check the data, then put it on a schedule.
AI made writing SQL logic easy. The scheduling, monitoring and endless small changes to live workflows is still where 80% of the time goes – and that work has no one else to go to.
Building the workflow, scheduling it and keeping it running are all the same job – yours – on top of answering the questions that made you build it in the first place.
If you are on Alteryx or Fabric you already know it: the licence costs more than a one-person team can defend, and the cheaper route through dbt and Airflow needs an engineer you do not have.
Requests arrive faster than a two-tool setup can ship them. The backlog grows because the mechanics take longer than the thinking.
A library of production models built with our customers – each one a set of workflows producing an output for a business subject area. Push one to your Snowflake in one click, adapt it, or build your own.
See all six, with steps and schedules: production models.
| Refyner | Alteryx Designer | Power BI Dataflow | dbt / Airflow | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connect | Sources landed in your Snowflake | Broad connector estate | Into the Power BI service | Not included – you build it |
| Transform | Visual or SQL, pushdown | Visual, on the desktop | Power Query | SQL and code only |
| Schedule | Included | Needs Alteryx Server | Refresh only, capped by licence | You host Airflow |
| Built & run by analysts | Yes | Desktop only | Partly | Engineer-run |
| Runs on your Snowflake | Pushdown | Extract or In-DB | Fabric capacity | Yes |
| Supported, with an SLA | Included tier | Paid tiers | Microsoft support | DIY |
| Production models built in | Yes | Build it yourself | Build it yourself | Build it yourself |
| Price | $99/mo for 5 users + $3 per compute hour | Per-seat licence + Server licence | Bundled with licences + Fabric capacity | Free licence + hosting and engineer time |
See the detail: vs Alteryx · vs Tableau Prep · vs Power BI Dataflow · vs dbt / Airflow
"CX Data gave us a working data tool overnight – and the models were live in weeks."
"We get board-ready profit updates every morning – and never hired a data engineer to get them."
Your data stays in your Snowflake either way. See the security model.
We host and run Refyner, so there is nothing to install or upgrade. Connect your Snowflake and build – every update arrives automatically.
Transformations execute as pushdown SQL inside your warehouse. Refyner holds workflow configuration and metadata only – never your rows.
Describe what you need and the agent builds the workflow – or point it at an existing Alteryx workflow, Power BI Dataflow or SQL and it converts the logic for you to rewire to your own sources. It catches errors before they go live and proposes a fix; you approve or reject. It runs on Microsoft Azure OpenAI inside our own Azure tenancy, and prompts are not used to train foundation models.
Pre-flight checks & run monitor
BR_SHOPIFY_ORDERS, DIM_CUSTOMERcustomer_id per cohort weekDIM_CUSTOMER isn't unique on customer_id – flagged in background review.Refyner reads your Snowflake schema, so a drafted workflow references real tables, columns and keys. Before anything runs it checks every column, confirms the grain and flags joins that could fan out, then watches every scheduled run – so a broken job never becomes a wrong number on a dashboard.
Refyner is an AI workflow building and scheduling tool for one-person data teams on Snowflake. You describe what you need, Refyner drafts the workflow against your real schema, you review it, and it runs on your schedule – in one tool, without an engineer. Refyner is a CXDATA product.
One-person data teams in any industry – the analyst who is also the data engineer, with no one to hand the build to. Small teams of up to about five work the same way. Refyner is not aimed at large platform teams already running their own orchestration.
It drafts a workflow from a plain-English description against your real schema, explains any workflow back to you in plain English, validates columns, grain and join fan-out before a run, and helps fix failures. Point it at an existing Alteryx workflow, Power BI Dataflow or SQL script and it converts the logic – you rewire the source connections afterwards.
Yes. Refyner runs as pushdown on your own Snowflake account and has no engine of its own. If you do not have Snowflake yet, we will help you set it up and run the setup with you.
No. Transformations execute in your own warehouse as pushdown SQL and your data stays there. Refyner's control plane holds only configuration and metadata. Where a source has no staging area of its own, data may be staged briefly during ingestion and is deleted once the load completes.
It covers everyday workflow needs – joins, cleans, aggregations, calculations, filters and scheduled refreshes. It is not a spatial or predictive analytics suite, and it does not do streaming. If that is most of your work, a general-purpose platform fits better.
Minutes. You connect Snowflake with a scoped role, describe or build a workflow, and set a schedule – the demo above shows the whole path in about two minutes.
No. There is no scheduler to host, no server to license and no orchestration code to maintain. Analysts who write SQL can drop into SQL wherever they prefer it to the canvas.
Refyner Cloud starts at $99/month for 5 users. Building and previewing workflows is free; runs are charged at $3 per compute hour – source ingestion, workflow runs and schedules.
Connect Snowflake, build a workflow and put it on a schedule – on your own warehouse, without an engineer.
